You have to move to your own beat. There will be times when no one believes in you or understands what you're doing and why you are doing it. The most important thing is for you to believe in you. Following your own vision is one of the only things that will sustain you.
Following your own vision is one of the only things that will sustain you.
When you empower women and help them thrive, you help their communities thrive. Women shoulder the burden disproportionately.
I grew up in the South Bronx, raised by my grandmother, who scrapped and scraped to make sure I had a roof over my head and food in my stomach. I was painfully aware of what it was like to live with limited resources and a certain level of uncertainty.
I think when you're in love with someone, it reveals a lot about yourself. You either rise to your highest highs or you stoop to your lowest lows.
Donate time, food, or money to organizations that fight the good fight. We can act individually for the collective good. We can all do something.
It feels good to know you contributed positively to another's life, to their happiness, to their survival. It gives us a sense of purpose.
I never wanted to be the person who said, "I woulda, coulda, shoulda." Life is way too short, and you may not last that long.
Women are the harshest critics of other women.
If it gets to the point where I actually physically cannot have a child, there's plenty of children in the world that need a stable home and loving parent. I'm so down for adoption.
I love flowy hippie dresses.
We live in a country [USA] where the belief is that anyone can succeed, but for so many here, and for the majority of the world, that's not the case. In many parts of the world, women and poor people are at a huge disadvantage - certain rights and protections don't exist, and they don't have the chance of upward mobility.
I kind of do high-low style a lot.
With all this talk of Going Green, Buying Green, Living Green, and Green being the new whatever, I've come to realize that, although we had no green, my grandmother was actually the 'greenest' person I've ever known.
Life doesn't always end up with a bow wrapped around it.
My grandmother instilled in me two important lessons: I was just as good as anyone else, and education was my salvation. Fortunately, I was able to get scholarships to excellent schools, but I was one of the lucky ones. All of this is what draws me to anti-poverty organizations like Oxfam.
I've always said that if anything - whether it was film or television - was something I responded to, then I was open to it.
When I was younger, I was one of the few girls in the neighborhood who could break dance. That's kind of my local, ghetto-celebrity claim to fame.
In the mid-nineties, diversity in the fashion/beauty business was hard to come by.
You have to move to your own beat.
I don't have children of my own so I can't say I know the plight of being a parent, but I can kinda understand some of the complexities of it.
You can't improvise if you are tense. Or thinking too much. You have to really let it go.
I hate Christmas, really. I don't really give presents away or expect any.
Sometimes, we are dealing with our own troubles and feel that we don't have the resources to help one another. Or simply, we just don't know what to do.
My husband's a stunt man, and he dragged me to stunt driving school with him because I hate driving and he felt that it would help to make me feel more comfortable. And it did in certain ways, and in certain ways I'm still not.
